28th Jul, 2021 10:30 GMT/BST

Books, Maps & Manuscripts

 
  Lot 10
 

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Railways. Pigot & Co.'s British Atlas, comprising the Counties of England (upon which are laid down

Railways. Pigot & Co.'s British Atlas, comprising the Counties of England (upon which are laid down all Railways Completed and in Progress), London: Pigot & Slater, Fleet-Street, and Fountain-Street, Manchester, c.1840. Folio (410 x 290 mm), title-page with engraved vignette, 'Address' leaf with list of contents at foot, 'Distance Table of 72 Principal Towns in England and Wales' (1 f.), 'Distance Table, in English Miles, of 73 Principal Towns in Ireland' (1 f.), 'Distance Table of the Principal Towns in Scotland' (1 f.), 'Distance Tables of the Principal Towns in the English Counties' (4 ff.), 41 hand-coloured steel-engraved maps (of 43: without 'Yorkshire' and 'Pigot's New Map of the Environs of London', but retaining the 3 large folding maps, 'England & Wales with Part of Scotland, including the New Lines of Canals, Rail Roads, etc.', 'New Map of Ireland embracing Every Recent Alteration', and 'New Map of Scotland with the Latest Improvements', each dated 1840), disbound, title-page soiled, folding maps with short splits to extremities of folds and neat linen-tape reinforcement to central intersection of folds verso, other maps with old tape-reinforcement along gutter (never affecting images), Buckinghamshire and Kent with juvenile pencil markings verso, closed marginal tear to Northumberland, a few marginal nicks to last few maps, Worcestershire extensively torn and crudely repaired (qty: 1) This edition apparently not in Chubb but cf. CCCCXXV-CCCCXXVIII. Sold as a collection of maps.

Sold for £400
Estimated at £100 - £200


 

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